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"Pub landlord fights smoke ban by declaring his boozer an embassy. For pub-goers who enjoy a cigarette with their drink, next week's ban will make England a very different place. So one landlord has claims to have found a loophole to fight the new law – by declaring his pub […]
Food, Fraudsters, Funny, Health, Weird News Funny, Munger Potato Festival, Potatoe, Weird News
As the 2007 Munger Potato Festival Potato Queen, Allison Nowicki wasn’t planning to relinquish her sash and crown until next month, when the next festival queen is to be named. But the Munger Potato Festival Queen Committee thought otherwise. Nowicki, of Hampton Township, received a letter from the committee saying […]
Entertainment, Hmmn Interesting, Politics, PSA, Tech Copyright Royalty Board, Day of Silence, PSA, Radio
From Arstechnica: Today is June 26, and that means that it’s the Internet radio Day of Silence. The Day of Silence was organized by Radio Internet Newsletter publisher Kurt Hanson in order to protest against retroactive royalty rate increases that could end up putting many Internet radio stations out of business. The rates are due […]
Entertainment, Film, Hmmn Interesting, Tech, Words etc Adam Savage, Blade Runner, CGI, Film, FX, Ridley Scott
An interesting article by Adam Savage (MythBusters) on the sci-fi classic. Twenty-five years ago, the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner became an instant science fiction classic. Set in a sodden, squalid Los Angeles of 2019, the neo-noir masterpiece influenced a generation of filmmakers and video-game designers. Long before I teamed […]
History, Hmmn Interesting, Tech 3D Models, Roman Empire, Rome
Not only was Rome not built in a day, but a digital model took 10 years to construct. A team of archaeologists, architects and computer specialists from Italy, the United States, Britain and Germany has just unveiled a sprawling 3D digital simulation of the ancient city as it appeared at […]
“I feel ashamed that I couldn't notice the alarm bells set off by my own body," he said. "But with the goal to win another title with a new record, I couldn't stop my training so close to the competition. "I was continuing my training and bearing with the pain […]
Europe, Puppies and Flowers, Weird News
A two-year-old girl from Hampshire has become the youngest ever female member of British Mensa. Georgia Brown, from Aldershot, Hampshire, astounded experts by scoring 152 in an IQ test – putting her in the top 2% of the population for her age. Psychologist Joan Freeman, who tested Georgia, said she […]
Europe, History, Hmmn Interesting
A professional puzzle inventor has solved what he considers the oldest riddle of them all – Stonehenge. Bruce Bedlam, 56, has built a scale model of the ancient stone circle as he believes it was originally constructed – as a round building. He believes that the Wiltshire monument was created […]
Hmmn Interesting, Illustration, Tech DIgital Illustration, Hmmn. Interesting., Microsoft Paint, Mona Lisa
How to paint the Mona Lisa with MS Paint Using Microsoft Paint to draw the Mona Lisa. How to make the worlds most famous painting with the world’s most infamous graphics program. This is an edited, re-uploaded version of the original video of the same title. It was uploaded in […]